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February 3rd. One million, five hundred thousand signatures and rising, with regard to the ACTA petition. I have now moved the text to my Links page, which gets quite a lot of viewers, so it will run there. Meanwhile: I have been beavering away with small paintings during these past days and gradually uploading them to my new blog SmallArtUK. As they drop down the blog, I will put some of the better ones here at the Smallpaintings gallery.
Sadly, after over 8 years of membership at Zazzle.com I have terminated my account. I don't like the way it's running right now, so decided that the time had come to throw in the towel. Any references to Zazzle on this website will get removed in due course, but I have quite a few pages to get through, to complete that task.
<January 24th. The Small paintings page has been refreshed, with the removal of some older, not-for-sale paintings from the lower section. Recent small ones ready for sale have now been priced and completed. There is not a great deal in the offing right now as far as larger pictures go; the 20x8 is drying and I have another canvas just under way with an oil underpainting.
January 17th. New aceo card "Flower Urn at Hestercombe" now online on the aceo gallery. It is not priced yet because I haven't yet decided how to go about this; whether to offer them direct from the page or go to Ebay. I have a 20" x 8" oil under way, with poppies; with a freezing cold workroom again I'm working on this flat on the floor, in a warmer part of the house. Finally; I will be pricing the remainder of the recent small oils soon, by end of the month.
January 11th. Today I have spent my time working through a somewhat larger painting, for a change. Getting some completed work into the system---albeit small ones--- has been beneficial for my concentration. I have ideas for paintings that should work at both small and larger scale; now I have the choice of deciding which way to go. Sometimes working a subject "small" helps me to decide whether it is likely to be worthwhile tackling as a larger painting.
My mode of operation right now is using oils for both small and larger paintings; acrylics for small works on paper (including aceos); watercolour for small pics also; and pastels where I think the subject is suited. Most pictures that I enter for local shows are in pastel.
It is some months since I have produced any aceo cards but I am fitting in a new set in between all the other things I'm doing right now. One has been completed, one is just started. I cannot "roll them out" on a conveyor belt because I need to spend some time deciding whether an idea will fit into the small size or not.
January 9th. New painting "Sunset Over Reed-Bed" on the main paintings page. This is rather smaller than usual and should perhaps be on the small-paintings section; but the main-page hasn't had an update for quite a while, so I've put it there instead. It should be ready for sale in a few weeks. In the meantime, I have posted a new small painting "Gold and Green Woods" in acrylic on paper (it went on the blog as a scanned image a day or so ago, but I wanted to take a better photo of it for here). There is a small oil painting also drying off that will be heading for the blog shortly. Finally, the little 3x3-inch Summer Bouquet is with frame and available.
January 6th. I have always had a good reputation for delivering paintings promptly after purchase. It is therefore particularly annoying to have that reputation soiled somewhat by courier services failing to collect packages from my home on specified dates. As a result, I have now amended the terms and conditions of sale (see the Contact page, section in red) with regard to guaranteed timings of delivery.
Primarily, this only really applies to larger canvases. A painting of 20" and more, once packaged, becomes cumbersome for me to carry to the post office four miles away; hence having it collected from home by a carrier is very helpful. Smaller paintings are not a problem because they go directly from the post office.
